Well, I am finally back at work and into my trading mode and my number one market to watch is the USDJPY pair. The dollar is losing its value and its future is not very bright. BUT the Japanese yen is the uglier sister. I have repeatedly said that the dollar-yen pair is a […]

When I am not doing a lot of active trading, I am actively thinking about trading. That is what I am doing at the moment and my mind is on price oscillations. Traders all think they know about oscillations but they are really quite complicated; so let’s review […]

Traders make their money (or lose it) on price oscillations. Price oscillations vary with time frame. Generally speaking, the shorter the time frame the shorter the oscillation amplitude will be – and vice versa.

This is true whether you use minute bars – or as I do, tick bars – to look at different time […]

One of the things that all FOREX trading companies always brag about is that FOREX trading is “commission free.” That is true, FOREX trading companies do not charge a commission – BUT for the trader, there is a charge for each FOREX trade – it’s called the spread. When you enter a trade – let’s […]

We are mostly trading currencies these days. The reason is that the currency markets are truly huge and the manipulations are not as hard to avoid. It is sad, but alas, true, that most markets are manipulated these days. We little guys just need to understand that […]

When I trade it’s almost always a trade based on pure technical analysis. The one exception is when I trade gold or silver. As I discussed yesterday, the futures markets for gold and silver are ruthlessly manipulated by the bullion banks, led by JPMorgan, whose naked short position alone in silver is proof positive of […]

The MACD is a time honored indicator and used by many chartists. The histogram of the MACD is not as widely used, but for a short term trader it is an aid in determining when the MACD first begins to converge – and that information is important to traders because the MACD is a trailing […]